Sunset or sunrise can create some of the most spectacular skies, giving fantastic opportunities for landscape photography. Make the most of any early morning mist that rolls in when photographing sunrise, while sunset tends to offer the best opportunities to capture silhouettes.
If your landscape is looking lacklustre, find out how to warm and boost a shot’s colours before adding a gradient-based glow When shooting the sun rising over a scenic landscape, you should set your camera to use a tight aperture, such as f/16. This will help to ensure that both the foreground and background details [...]
By 9am the sun reaches an angle of about 45 degrees and at this point the light has pretty much the same intensity as it has at noon, remaining that way until around 4pm.